Ocean Pointer, international speaker and Audible best-selling author, Rev. Peter Panagore, MDiv, will lead worship and deliver the message at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Sunday, July 13, at 9:30 a.m. Margaret McEldowney will serve as organist. All are welcome! 

Peter is the author of "Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning," a memoir chronicling his transformative near-death experience in the Canadian wilderness. A two-time near-death experiencer, Peter is widely recognized in Maine for his 15-year broadcast of Daily Devotions on News Center Maine and across FM/AM radio stations statewide. His two-minute inspirational messages reached more than 30 million viewers annually. His first book, "Two Minutes for God: Quick Fixes for the Spirit," was drawn from among the 1,700 stories he produced for television. 

Before his media career, Peter served as minister of the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor (UCC), where he also worked as a community counselor. His published works include more than 150 sermons, prayers, poems, and articles as a contributing writer for Homiletics Journal. He also contributed a chapter, “Former Enemies,” to the New York Times #1 bestseller Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul. 

Peter earned his Master of Divinity from Yale, where he focused on the classics of Western and Eastern mysticism, and his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has recently published in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, a journal by Johns Hopkins University Press. 

A former gubernatorial appointee to Maine’s Domestic Violence Homicide Review Panel, Peter is now an internationally known teacher, speaker, storyteller, and spiritual counselor. He regularly appears on podcasts, broadcasts, and film documentaries, reaching a global audience with his message of hope, love, and mystical insight. 

You can find Peter every Sunday morning, live or recorded, on his "Not Church" YouTube channel, where he teaches mystical theology through the lens of near-death experiences. He also offers daily Centering Prayer and Kriya meditation sessions, as well as private spiritual counseling. To learn more, visit peterpanagore.love. 

Peter is married with two grown children and two grandchildren. You’ll see him zipping all around the region on his fat tire e-bike dressed in safety green.